Pump It Up

I had my son’s birthday party here. We were told that the staff would take pictures and at the end there would be a slide show and we could purchase the pictures. I deliberately did not take pictures with my phone so I could enjoy the experience because I was told that the staff would. None of that happened. We have 6 pictures that guests snapped with their phones.
The back parking lot is apparently built on the mouth of hell. Three of my guests had their cars broken into while we were inside – in broad daylight. The cars were locked so their windows were smashed. There are no security cameras.
I will say the shining exception to my otherwise terrible experience was the young lady who was in the food/​cake room with us. She was polite and professional.
No one has called to follow up. Possibly the worst birthday experience I’ve experienced.

Let me preface this review by saying, psycho therapists if you have patients with anxiety this would be an amazing place for exposure therapy.
Let me begin, we came here for a kids fund raiser even, paid our $ 10 to the pre teens attending the counter and entered what would be a magical wonderland of screaming children, foul potent smells, and a thick dense humid air I would later find out is B.O. swirling above. Within minutes of entering an announcement came on that they were at full capacity, I dont know if an inflatable slide can handle 30 children at once but God was it trying. Parents and children running everywhere… kids pushing… throwing things at one another and even some 16 – 17 year old boys who, I can only assumed were dropped off by their parents, jumping around tumbling into 5 – 7 year olds. There was an electronic mat the kids could play games on and parents sitting on it in the way. The smell, Dear Lord the smell… I would have liked to take a hose of hand sanitizer and sprayed the entire place. I only saw three preteen employees the entire night looking like a deer in headlights getting pelted by whatever the children could grab. If you like panic attacks, breathing in the fumes of a hundred moldy armpits, and potentially getting ecoli or ring worm… this is just your place… I will most certainly not be back and neither will my child… stay away… stay far far away.

We went here for a birthday party, and the kids loved it! We were a little late, so we missed the video. The staff was very friendly and very helpful. The kids had a great time, unfortunately with us being late, our kids didn’t get too long in the first room. The only downside was that the birthday girl had to rush through opening her gifts, there seemed to be a lack of planning/​timing. Overall though, it was a great experience. We would definately go back, but probably not host a birthday party there.

My wife and i went her for her nephews birthday, she has been here and loves it. I have never heard of this place and my first reaction was the «SNL» skit with Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon. I know… dont ask, those two just popped in my head. and of couse as i was driving i was doing their voices. Wifey looked at me like i just smoked something other than my «P Funks» (Parliaments) cause she doesn’t know of these 2.
Ok lets get back to the review… sorry people i tend to rant a little.
I must say I wish i had a place like this growing up… I had a circus town, and a Chucky Cheese… but this place has HUGE inflatable games… Kids jump in (even adults can relive their youth by getting in on the action. This place reminded me of that show «American Gladiator» I was a Hawk and Nitro fan myslef…
Best part is before any kid can enter through the doors, there is a saftey video and test they need to watch. Basically the «Rules», but sometimes they don’t go by the rules and they let the kids go and do their thing.
They have 2 different rooms (Arena’s A and B). first was the Arena A… this gets you loose, so you can get a feel for whats goin on, Arena B has the bigger obsticles/​games… they have like a minnie baskatball court, that at first they were trying to dunk, but then they just said «F» it and turned it into a dodge ball event… boys vs girls one bigger obsticle where you race and try to beat out your opponent. After these kids and some adults were basically tired out they end the celbration by bringing you into another room and just feast on pizza. The guest of honor has his/​her own throne where they are in the middle overlooking their guest
I was suprised this place didn’t smell of bad feet and sweat. they had this down on lock, exhausts blowing everything out. They do have air hockey games in both arenas’ and one game outside. but this one game has like 50 games downloaded into it. Only thing is they need more arcade games…
Great spot for the kids to go for parties…

Pump it Up appealed to me immediately. While waiting for my 5-​year-​old son’s friends to arrive, I found an arcade game that had 60 different classic 80s arcade games to choose from. Cool!
After all the kids have gathered and heard the rules, they are released into the first inflated room, which has one of those huge inflatable obstacle courses, a tall inflatable slide, and other big things to bounce in. And an air hockey table. Adults are free to slide, jump around, and compete on the obstacle course (I sooo beat my teenage daughter going through that thing!). After 40 minutes, you go to the second inflatable room, with different obstacle courses, slides, bouncy basketball court, etc. And air hockey again.
40 minutes again, and we are taken into the eating room, where pizza is provided, unlimited drinks, and you can bring your own cake. They will provide goody bags, plates, cups, balloons, that sort of thing. You get another 40 minutes in there, then you’re kicked out.
The pizza was from Dom’s in Newport, and was the excellent flat greasy type. Everyone had a great time, but it was pricy, I thought. For 16 – 18 kids, we paid north of $ 350 for the package.